I personally prefer using light weight window managers while working
with builds, hence been looking at a couple of them to put into SFE.

Fluxbox[1], an ultra light weight X11 window manager is now in SFE.

It integrates into the dt's login manager using the same approach as
followed by Xfce's OSOLxfce-loginmgr package from the xfce project.

Currently it is functional, the default theme
(font,background,color-scheme,menu options, desktop icons) is yet to
be worked out. A bunch of themes are installed that may be selected by
the user (Rt.Click->fluxbox menu->System Styles->Choose the style you
like. MerleyKay seems good).

No icons are placed on the desktop right now by default. The right
click menu options are picked from gnome-settings by fluxbox and is
the default behaviour.

I request those interested in fluxbox to try it and what worked on
different resolutions with different desktop settings and what sucks.
I will tweak some of these for a better user interface.

regards
Shiv

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxbox

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